Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-03-02
THE SECOND TRIAL
OF THE CRRMATORY MADE YESTERDAY
AFTERNOON,
In the Presence Of Quite Number Of Gentlemen
The Test Severe and Success
full One

| There can no longer De uOuDt Vi tho
entire success of the crematOry, as far as
it's capacity to destroy the objectionable
features of night-soil, garbage, and misccl-
laneous refuse of all kinds is concerned.
Mondays experiment demonstrated that
fact, and yesterdays test clinched the
matter on the under side. Every claim
made by Contractor Smith has been veri-
fed by actual experience, and with one or
two additions to the furnace, suggested by
yesterdays experience, the plant will be
perfectly adapted to the use for which it
was intended.
After infinite trouble about twenty bar
rels of what was supposed to be night-soil
was transported TO the crematOry during
Monday night, the work taking up most of
the time until daylight yesterday morn
ing, as it was found impossible TO haul
more than three barrels at time up the
heavy road to the furnace. The fire had
been kept going all night by Mr.. Serig,
and by noon the furnace was glow
ing with an intense heat, sufficient
to melt steel or almost any
other metal in very short time. Quite
4 number of interested gentlemen were on
the ground early in the day, some OF the
more enthusiastic bringing their dinners
with them, and eating at an imprOmptu
table Mt the south end OF the furnace.
About one o'clock in the afternoon the
work of charging the furnace began.
good deal of time having been taken up
with the erection of a temporary platform
upon which the heavy barrels could be
rolled to the top of the furnace. When
the barrels were gotten to the trap
doors it was found that the Gcon-
tents, instead of being night
soil, was at least three-fOurths
ashes, cinders and clay, as though the stuff
was the contents of dry vaults. This was
dampener, but, nevertheless, the stuff
was dumped into the furnace, a good deal
OF trouble being experienced in emptying
the barrels--sO much, in fact, that it was
clear to those present that barrels would
never do to transport night soil in, as =
regular thing, and that tank carts would
have to be employed exclusively.
charging the furnace was completed. the
entire twenty barrels being dumped into
it on one side, and quantity Of garbage
and miscellaneous Offal on the
other. The gas was then turned
on, and in q few moments all the volatile
matter was decOmpOsed by the intense heat
and driven oil in the form of yapOr and gas,
leaving the earthly matters and cinders rs u
residium. Much OF this stun, having al
ready been passed through fire, would not
burn, but the steady application of heat to
the mass soon reduced ii to the consistency
of tar, it much resembling an impure ar
ticle of glass or furnace Stag, having about
it no sign or symptom of impurity. This
mass of semi-liquid and Seething cinderS
was raked up and turned over thoroughly
by means of long iron hooks and had Il tluX
been added to it, it might have been
tapped of, and run out onto the hillside
in the shape of liquid. There was no
provision for tapping the furnace made
when it was erected, however, and a pOr-
ton Of the residium was raked out on the
ground, while the remainder will be re-
moved in that way before the next charge
is put in.
The nature Of the stuff thrown into the
furnace thus made yesterdays test very
severe one, but it was, nevertheless, very
satisfactory. There was little or no smoke,
save Just at the moment when the valves
were reversed, while no OdOr could be de
tected except from the burning of stuff
spilled on the top of the furnace, from the
necessarily imperfect method OF charging.
a Ia Il t.l
that iron doors, such as are used OH pud-
ding furnaces, should be provided for the
convenience of the superintendent in
charge, and also that, il charges are to be
made containing large percentage of
ashes or earthly matter, as was the case yes
terlay, it would be well to provide vent,
when, after tiuxing the residum, it can be
rapidly tapped oil upon the ground.
During the day the question of reu.Ov
ing the furnace to 4 more accessible site
was discussed, and it was decided by
some OF the gentlemen present that
the extreme north end of the EOlf
street extension, which was cut ont by the
wOrkhOusc prisoners three or four years
ago, would he the best location yet sug-
geSted. The grade is light on EOif street,
the haul very short one, compared with
that necessary To reach the present lOca-
ton OF the furnace, while the elevation is
sufficient to enable the Western wind, Il
pretty constant thing here in Wheeling, to
carry whatever OdOr may arise from the
furnace, over the hill and away from the
city. 1t was urged that a little work by
the city prison inmates would suffice to
level oil good location Mt the north end
of the street named, and the attention of
the Committee ON Health will be called
to the proposition, at Saturday afternoons
meeting.
l. 1t Necessary to Remove the CrematOry"
To The Editor Of the Register.
SIR: Many persons are, at present, con-
demning the action of the last Council in
locating the crematory in the city COM
mons. If it had not been located there,
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